My new website is finally live! If any of you have a blogger site and you have almost 3 years worth of content and over 600 posts to transfer, take it from me, it is not a walk in the park!sourceYou ...
Okay, tomorrow is the day. . . the day my site will go live. This is me, waiting without a lot of patience!PinterestIt will happen sometime in the afternoon if all goes well. We are still working on ...
I was so happy to be included in House Beautifuls The Last Words October 2011 issue. It should have said Have not Had, but Ill take it :) It was so great that this happened to be their Happiness star...
Im working on the press page for my new website (my new blog will be located at www.mariakillam.com when it goes live) and we need one place to link all my Washington Post mentions (5) so t...
The restaurant we had dinner in on Sunday night had this art with Texas is Colorful behind me. (Maria Killam)Okay, so if I told you the ACTUAL colours we ended up with this past weekend, I would have...
This is very similar to one of the new trend colours from the CMG Conference this weekend. We are going away from the tuscan, rusty oranges of the past 15 years to a fresher orange.AF-230 Buttered Ya...
sourceDenise Turner, Janice Lindsay, Roz Kavander and Maria KillamMe and some of my colour friends at the Saturday night dinner.KohlerNicole Wittwer a Product Manager at Kohler reported that recently...
I arrived tonight barely in time for the Board of Directors meeting for the Colour Marketing Group here in San Antonio. Im not a board member yet, everyone will be voting after the conference. Anyway...
Its time for the annual Colour Marketing Group Conference happening in San Antonio, TX starting this weekend. I fly there early Friday morning. Im currently working on my NOW and NEXT colour forecast...
PinterestI have been asked this question a few times. Whenever someone has read "A Light Colour will Never come to Life in a Dark Room".Can you have white cabinets in a dark kitchen? Yes. Her...
PinterestI opened this post from Copyblogger this morning in my in-box and started reading and I thought Wow I was just thinking about this the other day! How compared to so many in other parts of th...
PinterestThe other day when I posted a picture of my moms bathroom in her new carriage house and said that I love hardwood floors in bathrooms, I received a comment asking if this was something I alw...
source This is my mom’s carriage house being built on the 2 acres in Yarrow that she owns with my sister Elizabeth and her husband. Everything was on a strict budget. The roof is black just as it sho...
This is a new piece of art we picked up in Sechelt when we were there last weekend. We stopped into Anita Lindblom’s gallery on the Sunshine Coast Highway. Anita says people drop in to her studio jus...
source Its time for my September newsletter. I was hoping my new website would be up by now but its going to be another week hopefully at the most! Pinterest If youd like to read my special article a...
Every time I consult with a client on colour for a new kitchen floor, I always steer them to hardwood over tile, cork, marmoleum or vinyl. Why? Because hardwood is like jeans, it pretty much goes wit...
I was recently reviewing the gray chapter in Janice Lindsays book All About Colour. When I first read it about two years ago, gray was not nearly as hot as it is right now. Remember when I said...
sourceI have said this in other ways before, here and here. However, today, someone on a Colour Marketing Group discussion forum posted this question: "What is the most healing color range one sh...
sourceI opened my September Vogue magazine and was thrilled to read the headline on page 578 – Out with Tedious Black! Writer Sarah Mower goes on to say that among the fashion crowd, the race is on, ...
Friday afternoon I was told to step away from my computer and my partner took me on a ferry up to the Sunshine Coast where we had a fabulous dinner at the West Coast Wilderness Lodge last night. This...
Recently Joni from Cote de Texas wrote this totally inspired post, Convincing your husband to decorate your Way. Its a must read for every woman who gets grief from their husband over wanti...
Image via PinterestYesterday when my on-line client Lori from Seattle got on the phone with me for an Exterior and Interior consultation (exterior below) she said, “I might have to change my backspla...
Image via Pinterest This post is strictly for those of you that are still trying to decide on a backsplash for your kitchen. I get so many questions on backsplash tile that I thought I’d cover i...
Tomorrow night, we are in charge of my 2 & 4 year old nephews while my sister and her husband are at a wedding. This week I picked up an armload of toys to keep the little angels entertained. I w...
Image via Pinterest I recently bought a sideboard for my dining room (I still need to find lamps, etc which is why I havent posted it yet). I certainly had room for a china cabinet but I didnt buy on...
Image via PinterestMy clients previously had renters in the house Im talking about (below) and were now going to do a quick little renovation to sell it. This was an old character home and the last r...
Photos by Maria KillamI think everyone should have a whimsical pair of salt & paper shakers like this on their kitchen table. It’s like an accessory and totally appropriate in a kitchen. I bought...
In my True Colour Expert Workshops I always ask "Who here thinks I have some kind of magical ability to see colour?" Everyone always looks at me like theyre thinking Really? Is she that arrog...
Vintage is really the prettiest (source) So I have a confession. Call me unsophisticated but I had no idea cutlery (which is what I thought it was called) or silverware is actually called flatware. A...
Apparently one of the biggest attractions in Wisconsin is Frank Lloyd Wrights Residence called the Taliesin Preservation in Spring Green. We arrived at 11:30 am today so we enjoyed brunch first ...
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